On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 12:13, Mike Mazarick
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ... look at OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana/Illuminos, DTrace, Zones, Crowbar, and
> ZFS. In Oct 2018, they are “ghost projects” without any personnel to steer
> the ship or to give them any life.
First up, it is spelt "illumos".
Secondly, there are a number of projects in the illumos sphere with
active contributors. To name a few:
OpenIndiana
https://www.openindiana.org
Just announced the release of their 2018.10 snapshot
OmniOS
https://omniosce.org/
Just announced release r151026y
SmartOS (by Joyent)
https://www.joyent.com/smartos
and https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live
We put out an updated binary build once a fortnight
> Linux has won and I am seeing if there is a place for FreeBDS (which is
> technically superior. Remember the Beta standard?).
(It's "FreeBSD"!)
I agree that Linux is popular, but to suggest that it has "won"
implies a zero sum game -- this is firmly not the case. There are a
number of modern, UNIX-like operating systems with smaller communities
that are doing just fine; e.g, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and yes, even
illumos!
I would note that choosing an operating system isn't really one choice
but a million small choices; it's just that all the choices have to go
the same way. If Linux meets yours needs, that's great. For those of
us working on and deploying illumos-based systems, it's because it
meets our expectations and is a projection of our particular values as
engineers and users alike. It's probably not helpful to talk of
things as being generally "superior" -- just a good fit for a
particular use, and a particular user.
As for the rest of your mail, I think it's broadly off-topic for the
DTrace list. Please keep your posts focused on DTrace-specific
subject matter!
Thanks.
--
Joshua M. Clulow
Engineer @ Joyent
http://blog.sysmgr.org
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